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'Damasio undertakes nothing less than a reconstruction of the natural history of the universe ... [A] brave and honest book' The New York Times Boo...

THE IMMEDIATE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERThe debut self-help book from Vicky Pattison, on how to quash your inner doubts, overcome fear and live a happ...

This book is nothing less than the definitive study of a text long considered central to understanding the Renaissance and its place in Western cul...

A New Statesman Best Book of the YearA Church Times Book of the YearWe are facing a crisis of civility, a war of words polluting our public sphere....

Winner of the Gustave O. Arlt Award in the HumanitiesWinner of the Istvan Hont Book PrizeAn ambitious reinterpretation and defense of Platos basic ...

Philosophers debate the ideas and implications of one of the most important contemporary works in the philosophy of science, David Alberts Time and...

An award-winning philosopher bridges the continental-analytic divide with an important contribution to the debate on the meaning of realism.Jocelyn...

One of our most important political theorists pulls the philosophical rug out from under modern liberalism, then tries to place it on a more secure...

Many philosophers believe they can gain knowledge about the world from the comfort of their armchairs, simply by reflecting on the nature of things...

A distinguished philosopher offers a novel account of experience and reason, and develops our understanding of conscious experience and its relatio...

The Art of Being is a powerful account of how the literary form of the novel reorients philosophy toward the meaning of existence. Yi-Ping Ong show...

In Reading Wittgenstein with Anscombe, Going On to Ethics, Cora Diamond follows two major European philosophers as they think about thinking, as we...

Appiah is a writer and thinker of remarkable range [He] has packed into this short book an impressive amount of original reflection A rich and illu...

What is the best possible society? How would its rulers govern and its citizens behave? Such questions are sometimes dismissed as distractions from...

The International BestsellerDiscover how to win in any situation using the ancient wisdom of the Shaolin monks.The Shaolin monks in China are legen...

Automating technologies threaten to usher in a workless future. But this can be a good thingif we play our cards right.Human obsolescence is immine...

'Grayling brings satisfying order to daunting subjects' Steven Pinker'An enthusiastic thinker who embraces humour, common sense and lucidity' Indep...

An entertaining guide to historys most fascinating philosophers from Sappho to Kant, and Aristotle to Simone de Beauvoir which seeks to help us a...

These essays on Food and Philosophy were written over several decades. Not only philosophers and historians but individuals who have an ongoing int...

WHEN DID YOU LAST SEE THE STARS?'Look at a satellite image of the Earth. Where it was once as dark as night, it is now lit up like a Christmas tree...

Materialism asserts that the universe and everything within it, including ourselves, is a deterministic machine, trapped until the end of time on t...

An incisive argument for the relevance of political philosophy and its possibility of effecting change.The appeal of political philosophy is that i...

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring 'Know thyself' is said to have been one of the maxims carved into the Temple of Apollo at De...

What kind of life would be truly worth wanting? What kind of world would be truly worth seeking? How should we live?We are facing a crisis of meani...

Narrated by Charlie Mackesy. Brought to you by Penguin. With music by Max Richter and Isobel Waller-Bridge.Discover the universal tale of four unli...

Health Economics and Financing What are the metaphysics of time travel? How can Hurley exist in two places at the same time? What does it mean for ...

Health Economics and Financing What are the metaphysics of time travel? How can Hurley exist in two places at the same time? What does it mean for ...

How can science help us live better and longer? A groundbreaking exploration of longevity from Nobel Prize-winning biologist Venki Ramakrishnan SH...

The future is alongside us, sometimes closer, sometimes further away. Hidden Valleys starts from the perception that the human world is an eerie pl...

Philosopher Travis Rieder outlines a new ethics for the age of humanmade catastrophe. We are all asking, in a hyperglobalised world hurtling toward...

Life constantly requires us to give other people some hugely awkward messages: that we dont love them anymore; that we do love them (though were no...

An inspiring curated selection of 40 photographs and artworks with accompanying essays examining the skill of confidence. The difference between s...

One of the difficulties about how our minds work is that we often cannot quite clearly see or know what is inside us. Art therapists have a longsta...